kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) (06/21/89)
[ Per Abrahamsen pointed out that many who do not use rnews would probably kill the thread "Re: How do I use rnews ?", which contained my original posting regarding the survey. So this is a repost with an appropriate subject line. If you have already participated in the survey, you do not need to do so again. ] I'd like to conduct an informal net survey. If you read news under GNU Emacs please send me a note simply stating which newsreader you use. I will summarize the results in a few weeks. kyle jones <kyle@cs.odu.edu> ...!uunet!talos!kjones
kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones) (07/20/89)
Here are the results of the newsreader survey I began around three weeks ago. The original article was psoted 19 June to comp.emacs and gnu.emacs. It expired 11 July, but the responses continued to trickle in, so I waited until they stopped. Newsreader # of responses ----------------------------------- GNUS 140 Gnews 48 rnews 28 batmail 1 RMAIL (hacked) 1 vn.el 1 I also received one response for "terminal-emulator + rn + emacsclient". While not exactly what I had in mind, it's a clever idea. RMAIL made a surprise appearence here also. Someone has actually hacked RMAIL into a newsreader. There were other RMAIL responses but only one indicated that RMAIL actually went to the news spool for articles; the others used RMAIL for reading mailing lists.